Journey into the Night

Dr. Egil Börne, an eminent physician, comes under the spell of an unscrupulous cabaret dancer and deserts his fiancée. The plot finds echoes throughout the Weimar period, including Sternberg’s The Blue Angel. Conrad Veidt appears in a supporting role as a sinister blind painter, whose entrance eerily presages Murnau’s Nosferatu. Der Gang in die Nacht, the earliest surviving film by F. W. Murnau, is also, paradoxically, the only Murnau film for which the original camera negative exists.

Director

F. W. Murnau

Written by

Harriet Bloch, Carl Mayer

Produced by

Sascha Goron

Cinematographer

Max Lutze

Studio

Goron Film

Origin countries

Germany, Denmark

Runtime

1h 21m

Language

German

Also known as

The Dark Road

TMDB

6.1/10 (23 votes)

IMDb

6.2/10 (483 votes)